Many in the networking industry may not be aware that SCTP exists and the benefits that it provides end-to-end Internet communications. We use TCP over IP for most unicast communications and the ...

Why it matters: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the system that web browsers use to talk to servers, and it's built using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP has many features that make it ...

Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre) is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission Control ...

There are two main data transfer protocols -- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). If you only had to know one fact about each protocol, it's that TCP is slower ...

In the past, Google has created alternatives to widely used networking protocols such as SPDY in order to deliver search results as fast as possible. Apple is now doing something similar by having ...

Designed and Developed Transport Control Protocol (TCP) (using C++) with the following functionalities: * Establishing Three-Way Handshaking in TCP. * Assigning Random Topology to the network with ...

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Most people who have written networking software are familiar with the TCP and UDP protocols. These are used to connect distributed applications and allow messages to flow between them. These ...

An SCTP association is a generalisation of a TCP connection. Usually a TCP connection is one-to-one between two network interfaces, one on a server and the other on a client. In contrast, an SCTP ...